"Hard provided a music experience for those New Yorkers who love to rave, get down and dirty with thousands of strangers and weren't afraid to show some skin. (Looks like some attendees took notes from our Summer Music Fest trend report!)

Also, depending on how much you felt like raging, you could choose the "Hard" stage or "Harder" stage. (Which to me, is almost as character defining as choosing between "fire" and "ice" on the Dueling Dragons ride at Universal Studios.) Guests who didn't want to be bothered with making such a life-altering decision set up camp where ever and proceeded with their very own impromptu dance party.

The culmination of the evening came with M.I.A.'s much anticipated performance. Unfortunately, she wasn't properly miked, her voice was drowned out by her mashed up beats, and the only time she was heard was when she was yelling at the sound team...Thankfully mother nature was on her side, and it began to downpour, cutting her set short. At the end of the day the only press she received was spitting in a photographer's face, but all wasn't lost! She brought the noise, and really, isn't that what music festivals are all about?" [Guest of a Guest]

Saturday's NYC HARD FEST on Governors Island wasn't all just M.I.A., Die Antwoord and Sleigh Bells (and more Die Antwoord), it was a 2-stage extravaganza that fit up to 15,000 concert-goers (not sure how many tickets actually sold, but it was far from empty looking) in a large field just a short ferry ride away from South Street Seaport (Pier 11 actually). Destructo, Ninjasonik, Rye Rye, and Theophilus London were also among those on the bill. More pictures from those sets (and the big three), below....

4:55PM, first it's spelt "audience." The pictures where it seems like there aren't that many people are from daytime. Most people got there late to see M.I.A., who was scheduled to start close to midnight. Not to mention it was a super hot day. If I was going, I'd make sure to go after sundown.

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die antwoord needs a new hair stylist and costume designer- they look like idiots and are trying far too 'hard'. maybe that's why this festival was called 'hard' as it was filled with bands pretending to be...

How hard are they going to keep shoving Ninjasonik down our throats? I mean I get the commercial potential in a bunch of non-threatening hipster black dudes saying the N word a lot.... oh wait I just answered my own question.

To all the naysayers on here, suck it! I was there it was good. Not quite $60 worth, but good. Benga and Skream were hard hittin' and Die Antwoord made the crowd go nuts. It was the heat that made everybody tired and the feeling of being processed to get in to the show, if one more person grabbed my balls and I'm not talkin about the crowd. M.I.A. I love you, but baby go back to Diplo if he'll have you. That new shit is not bringin' it. And you waited way too long to play the shit we came there to hear. Thanks for the rain, that boat ride back was stellar.

Did anybody see the little human rat girl thing from Die Antwoord turned down the role to play oppisite Daniel Craig in the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo? I would have paid admission just to see see if daniel craig could pretend to want to hit it. Would have been magical.

fuck this hardfest. looks fucking lame would not want to roll face to MIA(who is way overated) and sleigh bells is one of the most overated bands in a while. That bitch just rips of karen o's style on stage and clothes